• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.37
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• pp.307-326
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• 1999

The primary purpose of this study is to analyze changes, if any, in the financial status and the intensity of health care service utilization of the regional health insurance societies following the 1995 merger of some rural and urban regional health insurance societies. Ultimately, this study is aiming at providing an empirical basis for predicting the impact of the 1998 merger of the Regional Health Insurance Program and the Health Insurance Program for Government Employees and Teachers and, further, predicting the impact of the merger of the entire health insurance programs scheduled for the year 2000. The study results did not suggest that the 1995 merger had brought about notable changes in the rate of increase in the total expenditures or the insurance payment of the merged regional insurance societies in comparison to non-merged ones. Neither did it show that the merger had resulted in significant changes in the intensity of the use of health services. The study, however, found that the 1995 merger had reduced the rate of increase in the management and operational cost of the merged insurance societies. Based on these findings, some policy implications are discussed, and suggestions are made for the total merger plan scheduled for the year 2000.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.61-102
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• 2011

The purpose of this article is to anatomize the political dynamics of South Korea's healthcare policymaking through the integrative analytical framework combining the policy network perspective and the advocacy coalition theory. This framework is expected to be advantageous to the analysis of Korea's turbulent healthcare policy change from a systematic and process-driven point of view. A target of analysis is the two decades of turbulence to transform the health insurance system into a single payer system. Through the analysis, this article tries to illuminate the dynamics of Korea's healthcare policymaking, by connecting environmental context, policy networks, advocacy coalitions, and policy outputs. For a case study, this article classifies the debates to inaugurate a single payer system into four sub-phases and conducts longitudinal comparative research.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.263-272
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is suggesting proper management methods for the national health expenditures by considering advanced countries and analysing the problems of national health expenditures management in korea. The majors results of the research are as follows. First, most advanced countries is integrating the management of national health expenditures about health insurance, workmen's accident compensation insurance and auto insurance etc, and medical prices and benefit standards are same regardless of insurance type. Second, national health expenditures has been managing separately by national health systems in korea, and there are many problems like the differences medical expenditure review and payment, medical prices and benefit standards etc. Although same symptoms and disease, there is great difference in health service utilization. Hereafter, management system of national health expenditures must be integrated, and must change same medical prices and benefit standards.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05c
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• pp.1551-1554
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• 2003

최근 다양한 의료정보 시스템이 개발되어, 그 사용이 급증하고 있다. 이 들 각각의 의료정보 시스템에서 발생, 축적된 의료정보는 분산 이질의 형태를 가지며, 또한 같은 의미를 갖는 의료정보가 각기 다른 구조와 용어로 기술되어 축적되는 것이 일반적이다. 이와 같이 개별적으로 개발, 활용되어 온 의료정보를 웹 상에서 통합하여, 단일화 된 의료정보 검색 기능을 제공하기 위해서는 이들 의료정보의 의미적 연관성을 고려한 정보의 통합, 검색 기술의 개발이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 의미적 의료정보의 통합을 위한 UMLS와 LOINC 데이터베이스 기반의 연관 값 지식베이스의 설계 및 개발 방식을 제안한다. 웹 상에 존재하는 각종 분산 이질 형태의 의료정보는 XML을 공통 데이터 구조로 하여 통합되며, 정보 통합의 과정에서 연관 값 지식베이스를 참조하여 의미적 관련도가 높은 의료정보(구조 정보와 내용 정보)는 상호 연결되어, 진정한 의미의 정보 통합을 구현하게 된다. 지식베이스는 용어별로 식별자, 요소명, 연관값, 복수형, 동의어, 한글 이름 등의 필드틀 가지며, 현재 상담, 처방, 보험, 의료용어, 증상, 임상결과 등 적용분야 별로 작성된 연관 값 지식베이스가 구현되어 있다.

• Journal of the Korean hospital association
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• v.31 no.3 s.277
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• pp.14-19
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• 2002

우리 국민의 의료서비스에 대한 불만은 매우 높다. 더더욱 최근 건강보험의 통합과 관련한 정치권과 행정부의 정책혼선과 의약분업 정책에 의해 야기된 불안과 불만은 정권자체의 불신을 초래하는 단계에까지 이르고 있다. 혼선과 불만이 야기된 근본적 원인은 정책담당자들의 무지, 일부 학자들의 잘못된 이념적 선동, 그리고 일반국민의 허황된 기대에서 찾아진다. 이 과정에서 얻는 중요한 교훈은 어떠한 정책이든 뜨거운 가슴으로 되지 않으며 무엇보다도 냉철한 머리가 정책의 중심을 차지하여야 한다는 것이다.

• 한국사회정책
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.99-123
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• 2018

Purpose: This study empirically investigates the utilization and expenditure of health care and long-term care at the last year of life for long-term care beneficiaries in Korea. Methods: This study used National Health Insurance and Long-term Care Insurance claims data of 271,474 LTCI beneficiaries, who died from July 2008 to December 2012. Their cause of death, place of death, health care costs, and the provision of aggressive care were analyzed. Results: Cardio-vascular disease(29.8%) and cancer(15.3%) were reported as their major cause of death, and hospital(64.4%), home(22.0%), social care facility(9.2%) were analyzed as the place of death. 99.3% of subjects used both health care and long-term care during the last 1 year of life. The average survival period were 516.2 days after they were LTCI beneficiaries. The health care expenditure gradually increased near the death, and the last month were three times more rather than the first month. Furthermore, 31.8% experienced some aggressive cares(CPR, blood transfusion, hemo-dialysis, etc.) at the last month of life. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that it is important to develop the end of life care policies(for example, hospice, advanced care directives) for the LTCI beneficiaries. They might contribute to the improvement of quality of life and the reduction of health care expenditure of the elderly at the end-of-life.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.61-85
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• 1989

본고(本稿)에서는 최근 달성된 전국민의료보험(全國民醫療保險)(NHI)의 재원조달방식(財源調達方式)을 개관한 다음 소득재분배관점(所得再分配觀點)에서 이론적(理論的), 실증적(實證的) 분석(分析)을 행하고자 한다. 의료보험(醫療保險)은 주로 건강한 사람으로 부터 병든 사람으로 의료(醫療)의 수평적(水平的) 재분배기능(再分配機能)을 행하나 결과적으로 수직적(垂直的) 재분배(再分配)에도 영향을 주게 된다. 형평(衡平)과 관련하여 모든 국민(國民)들에게 필요한 최저수준(最低水準)의 의료이용(醫療利用)을 보장한다든가 의료이용(醫療利用)에 따른 경제적(經濟的) 부담(負擔)을 균등하게 한다든가 하는 제기준(諸基準)의 선택은 결국 우리 사회(社會)가 내려야 할 가치판단(價値判斷)의 문제일 것이나 우리의 여건에 비추어 전자(前者)를 기조(基調)로 하되 후자(後者)를 지향하는 접근방식이 바람직하고 평가된다. 실증분석(實證分析)의 결과는 비록 작은 크기이기는 하나 어느 정도 재분배효과(再分配效果)를 보여주었으나 프로그램간 급여(給與)와 보험료부담(保險料負擔)의 측면에서 격차가 벌어지고 있는 실정이어서 NHI 재정통합(財政統合)이라는 장기목표(長期目標) 아래 소득연계적(所得連繫的)인 보험료부담(保險料負擔) 및 급여체계(給與體系)를 단계적으로 확립해 나가되 우선은 의료보호(醫療保護)부터 이 방안(方案)을 실천에 옮기도록 권고한다.

• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.37-82
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• 2009

Korea has gained the much more performances in the fields of pubic health laws and related policies on the basis of the substantial economic achievements. In 1977, the social medical insurance was established for companies with more than 500 employees, and in 1989, Korea successfully achieved the national medical insurance system covering the total population within only 12 years beginning with multiple insurers. There remained some problems, however, to be improved such as both the low level of contribution rates and benefit packages due to the inefficiency in utilizing limited medical resources. In 2000, all insurers were unified into a single insurer (National Health Insurance Corporation), and special independent Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) was also established. From the origin of medical insurance system in 1977, the Korean reimbursement system has been fee-for-service system, and after the establishment of HIRA, it has been providing objective and expert medical cost review services and health quality assessment services.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.457-466
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• 1999

2000년 7월을 기점으로 의약분업이 전국적으로 실시될 예정이다. 의약분업의 시행은 '약은 약사에게, 진료는 의사에게'라는 의약분업 본래의 취지 못지 않게 의약품 유통의 왜곡을 시정키 위한 조치이며 이에 따른 사회적/경제적 비용-국민의 불편 포함- 을 고려해 볼 때 이는 건국이래 행하여진 보건 정책 중 국민 생활에 가장 큰 영향을 미칠 것으로 보인다. 의약품의 유통 못지 않게 '의료보험'에 관한 논란 역시 현재 매우 중대한 사회적 주목을 받고 있는 문제이다. 현재 직장의보 및 지역의보와 관련되어 행해지고 있는 논란은 그 결과를 가늠키 어려운 난제임에 틀림없으며 그 결과여부에 관계없이 또 다른 막대한 사회적 비용을 요구할 것으로 보인다. 본 논문에서는 위의 두 가지 문제를 동시에 해결할 수 있는 의료통합정보시스템을 구축하고자한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.51-62
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• 2010

This paper proposes RSA cryptosystem based anonymous electronic prescription which is issued from university and local hospitals by authorized medical professionals. Electronic prescription is now being used in domestic hospitals where sharing medical records and images are prevailing, facilitated by digitalizing medical information and building network infrastructure between the institutes. Proposed RSA based anonymous electronic prescription makes use of PKI protects the identity exposure of doctors and privacy of patients. While traditional prescription fails to protect identities to mandates party or to health insurance, the proposed RSA based prescription opens the contents of the prescription to health insurance authority only after its prescribing function is finished. The proposed approach along with soon to be deployed electronic ID card will help national health insurance corporation to increase the transparency of national prescription system.